Subject: ET Exposure Law details
Date: 17 Jan 94 11:32:42 GMT



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Subject: ARTICLE: ET Exposure Law
Date: 30 May 93 10:11:35 GMT

File: exposlaw.txt
 
 
         The following was provided by R. Solomon for posting:
    
    
                     EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EXPOSURE LAW 
                       Already Passed by Congress
    
  On October 5,  1982, Dr. Brain T.  Clifford of the Pentagon announced 
at a press conference ("The Star", New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact 
between  U.S.   citizens  and extra-terrestrials or their  vehicles  is 
strictly illegal. 
    
According to a law already on the books 
    
  (Title 14,  Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,  adopted 
on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots),  anyone guilty of such 
contact  automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be jailed  for  one 
year and fined $5,000. The NASA administrator is empowered to determine 
with   or  without  a  hearing  that  a  person  or  object  has   been 
"extraterrestrially  exposed"  and impose an  indeterminate  quarantine 
under armed guard, which could not be broken even by court order. 
     
  There  is no limit placed on the number of individuals who could thus 
be arbitrarily quarantined. 
    
  The definition of "extraterrestrial exposure"  is left entirely up to 
NASA administrator, who is thus endowed with total dictatorial power to 
be exercised at his slightest caprice,  which is completely contrary to 
the Constitution. 
 
  According  to  Dr.   Clifford,  whose commanding officers  have  been 
assuring  the public for the last 39  years that UFO's are nothing more 
than  hoaxes and delusions to be dismissed with a condescending  smile: 
"This is really no joke, it's a very serious matter."  This legislation 
was  buried in the 1,211th subsection of the 14th section of a batch of 
regulations very few members of government probably bothered to read in 
its  entirety,  the proverbial needle in the haystack,  and was slipped 
onto the books without public debate. 
    
  Thus from one day to the next we learn that,  without having informed 
the public, in its infinite wisdom, the government of the United States 
has created a whole new criminal class: UFO contactees. 
   
  The  lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for  this  bitter 
pill  is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out 
the  human  race.   This is certainly one  of  the  many  possibilities 
inherent is such contact,  but just as certainly not the only one , and 
in  itself not a valid reason to make all contact illegal or to declare 
contactees criminals to be jailed and fined immediately. 
   
  It  appears the primary effect of such a law would not be to  prevent 
contact,  it would be to silence witnesses. If enforced,  the law would 
prevent  publication  of  contactee  reports  except  under  cover   of 
anonymity,   and unleash a modern inquisition in the Land of the  Free. 
However,  it is unenforceable,  so obviously absurd and unfair that the 
public will refuse to accept it. The citizens of the United States will 
greet  it  with  a resounding Bronx cheer and laugh it  out  of  court, 
forcing it to be repealed. 
    
  It  should  be replaced by clearly worded legislation,  not  open  to 
interpretation  in a multitude of different ways,  humanely relevant to 
the contingency of E.T. contact,  debated and passed by Congress openly 
instead  of slipped through "under the table"  without the public being 
informed. 
   
  According  to NASA spokesman Fletcher Reel,  the law as it stands  is 
not immediately applicable,  but in case of need could quickly be  made 
applicable.  What this means is that it is ambiguously worded,  so that 
it  can be interpreted either one way or the other,  as the  government 
desires. 
    
  It  is certainly not a coincidence that Dr.  Clifford held his  press 
conference  during the period when the popularity of the film E.T.  was 
at  its peak.  As E.T.  portrayed a type of extraterrestrial  that  was 
benevolent and lovable,  the inference is that the press conference was 
intended  to discourage attempts to communicate or fraternize with  UFO 
occupants.   However,   instead  of having  the  intended  effect,   it 
backfired, causing public furor. There may be some relationship between 
this fiasco and the next semi-officially endorsed attempt to deal  with 
the  subject of extra-terrestrials,  the TV film V,  which was featured 
with  repeat  performances  and maximum  publicity  by  major  networks 
worldwide.  The aliens  portrayed  in  V  are  the  most horrifying and 
repulsive  nightmares imaginable,  who are defeated thanks largely to a 
CIA hit man  specializing in covert operations,  the tough guy with the 
heart  of  gold who with the aid of the handsome hero saves  the  human 
race.  This is obvious and transparent propaganda,  designed to do what 
the government's widespread use of dis-information, and Dr.  Clifford's 
press conference about the absurd  lemon  of a law already on the books 
failed to do:  squelch  attempts  to communicate or fraternize with UFO 
occupants. 
    
  One  way  to avoid widespread panic at the announcement of  the  news 
that we are under  surveillance  by nonhuman  intelligent beings with a 
technology  far  more sophisticated than our own is to point  out  that 
this  situation  is nothing new,  but has literally been going  on  for 
millennia. 
    
  If the "flying dragons"  mentioned in the I Ching intended to  attack 
and destroy us,  they could easily have carried out this objective long 
ago.   Along  with  this article,  the text of the E.T.   Law  will  be 
presented. However, there are several points that I wish to make: 
    
  1211.101 Applicability. The provisions of this part apply to all NASA 
manned and unmanned space missions... 
   
  I  could  dismiss this whole controversy as a tempest in a teacup  if 
the  above  passage contained the word "only",  so as  to  read:   "The 
provisions  of  this  part apply only to all NASA manned  and  unmanned 
space missions..."  However,  it does not contain that one little  word 
which  would  have made such a big difference.  If the  government  was 
suddenly  faced with the accomplished fact of an undeniable overt  E.T. 
visitation,   this regulation could therefore,  be construed  as  being 
applicable  to  all  space  missions,  NASA or non  NASA,   whether  of 
terrestrial  or extra-terrestrial origin.  As it stands,  this  law  is 
applicable to UFO contact.  The meaning would have to be stretched, but 
the built-in loophole does exist. 
    
  1211.102  Definitions.  (b)  (2):  Touched directly or been in  close 
proximity  to (or been exposed indirectly to )...Even without  involved 
in   a  UFO  close  encounter  would  become  eligible  for  indefinite 
quarantine  under  armed  guard according to the above.   By  including 
indirect  exposure,   the NASA administrator is empowered to  make  the 
definition  mean  just about anything he wants it to.   An  example  of 
indirect exposure is given,  but an example is not a definition. Unless 
indirect  exposure is defined precisely,  it can mean almost  anything. 
The  possibility  is  not specifically ruled out that  other  types  of 
indirect  exposure  than  the example given might be  considered  valid 
grounds to "quarantine" a citizen or group of citizens. 
   
  In my opinion, it is vital that we challenge the validity of his law, 
for  if  it  is  allowed to stand  unchallenged,   UFO  contactees  and 
researchers  may all meet behind barbed wire and armed guards somewhere 
in Alaska.  I strongly urge everyone who reads the E.T. Law,  Title 14, 
Section  1211   of the Code of Federal Regulations (at the end of  this 
article),  to clip it out,  and send it on to your congressman,  with a 
demand penciled in,  to repeal this absurd and potentially lethal  law. 
We must use reason,  and transcend fear in order to make this planet  a 
place where all may live in peace and harmony, as One. 
   
                          Text of the E.T. Law 
    
               1211.100 Title 14 - Aeronautics and Space
    
                 Part 1211 - Extra-terrestrial Exposure 
    
                            1211.100 - Scope
    
This part establishes: (a) NASA policy, responsibility and authority to 
guard the Earth against any harmful contamination or adverse changes in 
its environment resulting from personnel, spacecraft and other property 
returning  to  the  Earth  after  landing  on  or  coming  within   the 
atmospheric   envelope   of  a  celestial  body;   and  (b)    security 
requirements,   restrictions  and safeguards that are necessary in  the 
interest of national security. 
    
                        1211.101 - Applicability
    
The  provisions  of  this part to all NASA manned  and  unmanned  space 
missions  which  land  or come within the  atmospheric  envelope  of  a 
celestial body and return to the Earth. 
    
                         1211.102 - Definitions
    
(a) "NASA"   and the "Administrator"  mean,  respectively the  National 
    Aeronautics  and Space Administration and the administrator of  the 
    National  Aeronautics  and Space Administration or  his  authorized 
    representative. 
 
(b) "Extra-terrestrially  exposed"  means the state of condition of any 
    person, property,  animal or other form of life or matter whatever, 
    who or which has: 
    
    (1) Touched directly or come within the atmospheric envelope or any 
        other celestial body; or 
 
    (2) Touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been exposed 
        indirectly to ) any person,  property,  animal or other form of 
        life  or  matter  who or  which  has  been  extra-terrestrially 
        exposed by virtue of paragraph (b)(1) of this section. 
    
        For example,  if person or thing "A" touches the surface of the 
        Moon,   and on "A's"  return to Earth,  "B"  touches "A"   and, 
        subsequently,  "C" touches "B", all of these - "A"  through "C" 
        inclusive - would be extra-terrestrially exposed ("A"  and  "B" 
        directly; "C" indirectly). 
   
(c) "Quarantine"  means the detention,  examination and decontamination 
    of  any persons,  property,  animal or other form of life or matter 
    whatever  that  is extra-terrestrially exposed,  and  includes  the 
    apprehension or seizure of such person,  property,  animal or other 
    form of life or matter whatever. 
    
(d) "Quarantine period"  means a period of consecutive calendar days as 
    may be established in accordance with 1211.104 (a). 
   
    (a) Administrative    actions.     The   Administrator    or    his 
        designee..shall in his discretion: 
 
        (1) Determine the beginning and duration of a quarantine period 
            with respect to any space mission; the quarantine period as 
            it applies to various life forms will be announced. 
 
        (2) Designate  in  writing  quarantine  officers  to   exercise 
            quarantine authority. 
    
        (3) Determine that a particular person,  property,  animal,  or 
            other   form   of  life  or  matter  whatever   is   extra-
            terrestrially exposed and quarantine such person, property, 
            animal,   or  other form of life or matter  whatever.   The 
            quarantine  may be based only on a determination,  with  or 
            without  the benefit of a hearing,  that there is  probable 
            cause  to believe that such person,  property,   animal  or 
            other   form   of  life  or  matter  whatever   is   extra-
            terrestrially exposed. 
    
        (4) Determine  within  the United States or within  vessels  or 
            vehicles of the United States the place,  boundaries,   and 
            rules of operation of necessary quarantine stations. 
    
        (5) Provide  for guard services by contract or  otherwise,   as 
            many  be necessary,  to maintain security and inviolability 
            of quarantine stations and quarantined persons,   property, 
            animals or other form of life or matter whatever. 
   
        (6) Provide for the subsistence,  health and welfare of persons 
            quarantined under the provisions of this part. 
   
        (7) Hold  such hearings at such times,  in such manner and  for 
            such  purposes as may be desirable or necessary under  this 
            part,   including  hearings for the purpose of  creating  a 
            record for use in making any determination under this  part 
            for the purpose of reviewing any such determination. 
  
    (b) (3) During any period of announced quarantine,  no person shall 
            enter  or depart from the limits of the quarantine  station 
            without  permission of the cognizant NASA officer.   During 
            such  period,  the posted perimeter of a quarantine station 
            shall be secured by armed guard. 
   
    (b) (4) Any person who enters the limits of any quarantine  station 
            during  the  quarantine  period  shall be  deemed  to  have 
            consented  to  the  quarantine  of  his  person  if  it  is 
            determined  that  he is or has  become  extra-terrestrially 
            exposed. 
    
    (b) (5) At  the  earliest  practicable time,  each  person  who  is 
            quarantined by NASA shall be given a reasonable opportunity 
            to  communicate  by telephone with legal counsel  or  other 
            persons of his choice. 


 
                    1211.107 Court or other process 
    
(a) NASA  officers  and employees are prohibited from discharging  from 
    the  limits  of  a  quarantine  station  any  quarantined   person, 
    property,   animal or other form of life or matter whatever  during 
    order  or  other request,  order or demand an announced  quarantine 
    period  in compliance with a subpoena,  show cause or any court  or 
    other  authority without the prior approval of the General  Counsel 
    and the Administrator. 
    
(b) Where approval to discharge a quarantined person, property,  animal 
    or other form of life or matter whatever in compliance with such  a 
    request,   order  or demand of any court or other authority is  not 
    given, the person to whom it is directed shall, if possible, appear 
    in  court or before the other authority and respectfully state  his 
    inability to comply, relying for his action on this 1211.107. 
 
                            1211.108 Violations 
    
Whoever  willfully  violates,  attempts to violate,   or  conspires  to 
violate  any  provision of this part or any regulation or order  issued 
under  this  part  or  who  enters or departs  from  the  limits  of  a 
quarantine station in disregard of the quarantine rules or  regulations 
or without permission of the NASA quarantine officer shall be fined not 
more that $5,000 or imprisoned not more than 1 year, or both. 
    
  Write  or call your congressman and tell him you want this law  taken 
off the books. 
    
This  article  was printed in The Open  Line  Newspaper  (Environmental 
Stewards) August, 1992 in Spokane, WA 99223. 
 
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From: jr@efi.sintef.no (Jarand Roeynstrand)
Subject: Re: ET Exposure Law details
Date: 17 Jan 94 16:40:19 GMT
Organization: SINTEF EFI


Not that this article only quotes part of the original article. Obtain
the original if any of my comments seems unclear or unfair.
In article <CJruqI.2q9@compsci.liverpool.ac.uk>, u2nmh@csc.liv.ac.uk (N.M. Humphries) writes:
|> 
|> -- 
|>        The following was provided by R. Solomon for posting:
|>    
|>    
|>                     EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL EXPOSURE LAW 
|>                       Already Passed by Congress
|>    .
|>   On October 5,  1982, Dr. Brain T.  Clifford of the Pentagon announced 
|> at a press conference ("The Star", New York, Oct. 5, 1982) that contact 
|> between  U.S.   citizens  and extra-terrestrials or their  vehicles  is 
|> strictly illegal. 
|>     
|> According to a law already on the books 
|>     
|>   (Title 14,  Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations,  adopted 
|> on July 16, 1969, before the Apollo moon shots),  anyone guilty of such 
|> contact  automatically becomes a wanted criminal to be jailed  for  one 
|> year and fined $5,000. The NASA administrator is empowered to determine 
|> with   or  without  a  hearing  that  a  person  or  object  has   been 
|> "extraterrestrially  exposed"  and impose an  indeterminate  quarantine 
|> under armed guard, which could not be broken even by court order. 

1. The law does not say anything about ET's, only about man's "contact" 
with as far as we know lifeless heavenly bodies.
2. If applicable in the case of ET's, (and there probable are no other
suitable law in such a situation) the law does not state that such contact
is illegal, only that persons that undergo such contact may be 
quarantined. If we assume that such people might pose a treath to the 
entire humanity, such a quarantine does not seem unreasonable to me. 
One year in quarantine might be very simmilar to new year in prison, but
in principle those two are different. And there is no way anybody could
possibly be fined 5000$ for meeting ET on the street. If anyone is 
attempting  to break a quarantine set up due to such a meeting, tha is
a crime, and it should bee. 

But note that in the case of ET landing on earth the law probably states 
that all mankind should be put into quarantine.:

|>  
|> (b) "Extra-terrestrially  exposed"  means the state of condition of any 
|>     person, property,  animal or other form of life or matter whatever, 
|>     who or which has: 
|>     
|>     (1) Touched directly or come within the atmospheric envelope or any 
|>         other celestial body; or 
|>  
|>     (2) Touched directly or been in close proximity to (or been exposed 
|>         indirectly to ) any person,  property,  animal or other form of 
|>         life  or  matter who or  which  has  been  extra-terrestrially 
|>         exposed by virtue of paragraph (b)(1) of this section. 
|> 

An real ET should probably be considered a "other celestial body" and not
an "other form of life or matter" in this context. (I.e. as far as danger
of alien virus is considered.) These is obviosly insane, and is the 
result of teh law not beeing intended to deal with ET's.

|>  
|>   The  lame excuse offered by NASA as a sugar coating for  this  bitter 
|> pill  is that extra-terrestrials might have a virus that could wipe out 
|> the  human  race.   This is certainly one  of  the  many  possibilities 
|> inherent is such contact,  but just as certainly not the only one , and 
|> in  itself not a valid reason to make all contact illegal or to declare 
|> contactees criminals to be jailed and fined immediately.

You admit that an UFO contact might wipe out the human race by introducing
a new virus. If this is a real danger, do you really find quarantine in 
the law unreasonable? (I would expect erthly and alien life to be too 
different too make alien virus a treath to humans, but who knows?)
   
|>   It  appears the primary effect of such a law would not be to  prevent 
|> contact,  it would be to silence witnesses. If enforced,  the law would 
|> prevent  publication  of  contactee  reports  except  under  cover   of 
|> anonymity,   and unleash a modern inquisition in the Land of the  Free. 
|> However,  it is unenforceable,  so obviously absurd and unfair that the 
|> public will refuse to accept it. The citizens of the United States will 
|> greet  it  with  a resounding Bronx cheer and laugh it  out  of  court, 
|> forcing it to be repealed. 

The purpose of the law, as stated is not to prevent contact with aliens, 
but to handle certain risks with NASA's space activity. If it should be
able to prevent anything at all, it should be publically known. As stated
only space agency personell need to know about it. 
|>     
|>   It  should  be replaced by clearly worded legislation,  not  open  to 
|> interpretation  in a multitude of different ways,  humanely relevant to 
|> the contingency of E.T. contact,  debated and passed by Congress openly 
|> instead  of slipped through "under the table"  without the public being 
|> informed. 
|>    
|>   According  to NASA spokesman Fletcher Reel,  the law as it stands  is 
|> not immediately applicable,  but in case of need could quickly be  made 
|> applicable.  What this means is that it is ambiguously worded,  so that 
|> it  can be interpreted either one way or the other,  as the  government 
|> desires.

What it means is that the law is written for an entirely different purpose
than you imagines. It is intended to deal with human space travel, and
must be mended to deal with ET-encounters. As far as I can jugde, the law
is fairly well worded for its purpose. This is a law about the unknown,
and it would be impossible to write a complete ambiguously worded law text
applicable to any situation that might araise during the space program.
 
|>   I  could  dismiss this whole controversy as a tempest in a teacup  if 
|> the  above  passage contained the word "only",  so as  to  read:   "The 
|> provisions  of  this  part apply only to all NASA manned  and  unmanned 
|> space missions..."  However,  it does not contain that one little  word 
|> which  would  have made such a big difference.  If the  government  was 
|> suddenly  faced with the accomplished fact of an undeniable overt  E.T. 
|> visitation,   this regulation could therefore,  be construed  as  being 
|> applicable  to  all  space  missions,  NASA or non  NASA,   whether  of 
|> terrestrial  or extra-terrestrial origin.  As it stands,  this  law  is 
|> applicable to UFO contact.  The meaning would have to be stretched, but 
|> the built-in loophole does exist. 

The wording is most probably choosen because the writer were unable to 
forsight your interpretation of the text. But if (what I consider unlikly)
a direct encounter should take place, do you not think that some 
precautions along these line should be taken?
|>     
|>   1211.102  Definitions.  (b)  (2):  Touched directly or been in  close 
|> proximity  to (or been exposed indirectly to )...Even without  involved 
|> in   a  UFO  close  encounter  would  become  eligible  for  indefinite 
|> quarantine  under  armed  guard according to the above.   By  including 
|> indirect  exposure,   the NASA administrator is empowered to  make  the 
|> definition  mean  just about anything he wants it to.   An  example  of 
|> indirect exposure is given,  but an example is not a definition. Unless 
|> indirect  exposure is defined precisely,  it can mean almost  anything. 
|> The  possibility  is  not specifically ruled out that  other  types  of 
|> indirect  exposure  than  the example given might be  considered  valid 
|> grounds to "quarantine" a citizen or group of citizens. 
|>    

As alerady mentioned, precise definitions for unknown situations is hard
to come by.

|> We must use reason,  and transcend fear in order to make this planet  a 
|> place where all may live in peace and harmony, as One. 
  
How do you KNOW, yhat alien life is not dangerous? (Note : I said 
"Dangerous" NOT "evil". It hardly make sense to call virus evil.

It is somewhat unclear to me whether tha original writer claims that this 
law was originally written in order to alow locking up people contacting
UFO's, and was hidden as a space-travell security law, or it was written
for its apearant purpose but us liable to be abused by the UFO hush-hush 
gays.

But in any case, my points are:

The law does not criminalise or attempt to criminalise ET-contact.

In case of ET-contact ther might be a need for precautions similar
to what the law prescriebes, but the law itself is not appilcable 
in its present form, as it is intended to deal with humans and
"things" returning from human space travel.

I see nothing in the text that make me doubt the intentions of the 
law, but if you want to find a conspirancy (sp?) in the law, you
will find it thera, as you will find it anywhere else.


  
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.Jarand Roynstrand
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.Norway.....email: jr@efi.sintef.no
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